Soundwave on 29 January 2015
| SubiyaCryolite said: Just how much does the gamepad cost anyway? Is this why it still isn't sold separately? |
I would probably guess about $80 or so. They sell replacements for north of $100.
Nintendo likely cannot get a break on the price of the controller because they're not selling enough systems to get suppliers to budge. That and the screen being a resistive touch panel that virtually no one else uses makes it probably more expensive than a multitouch screen even though resistive is (I believe) older tech. They can't just go to any supplier and get that screen, but if they were using multitouch LCD they probably could pick and choose from tons of vendors because so many have to make them for tablets.
